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Why Psychiatry Needs to Scrap the DSM System: An Immodest Proposal - PsychCen...
7 Jan 2012 at 8:04am
PsychCentral.com (blog)
Why Psychiatry Needs to Scrap the DSM System: An Immodest Proposal
PsychCentral.com (blog)
But in the longer term, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals owe it to themselves and their patients to think more boldly — and more philosophically — about their diagnostic system. Why Psychiatry Needs to Scrap the DSM System : An ...
Do some cultures have their own ways of going mad?The Boston Globe
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Veep laments lack of interest in mental health - Myjoyonline.com
7 Jan 2012 at 4:30am
Myjoyonline.com
Veep laments lack of interest in mental health
Myjoyonline.com
Vice President John Dramani Mahama has attributed the deteriorating mental health regime in the country's health facilities to lack of interest in the pursuit of psychiatry health by Nurses and Doctors. “Mental health has not been attractive to most of ...
Hires and Promotions (January 07, 2012) - In-Forum
7 Jan 2012 at 2:12am
Hires and Promotions (January 07, 2012)
In-Forum
Lakeland Mental Health Center, Moorhead, has hired registered nurse Jessica Graham Steinhauer to its psychiatry staff. Lakeland Mental Health Center, Moorhead, has hired registered nurse Jessica Graham Steinhauer to its psychiatry staff. ...
More children seek mental health care - Khaleej Times
4 Jan 2012 at 2:39pm
More children seek mental health care
Khaleej Times
Dr Alya Al Marri, Head of Psychiatry Department at Rashid Hospital, said, “We are well equipped in terms of mental health facilities at Rashid Hospital, yet, we still feel there is an urgent need for the members of the community to accept mental health ...
More awareness programmes needed to check worsening of mental illnessGulf Today
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A worrisome approach to mental health - Hamilton Spectator
5 Jan 2012 at 12:08am
A worrisome approach to mental health
Hamilton Spectator
That situation will become worse because the mandatory minimum sentences being proposed in the omnibus bill do not exempt those with mental illnesses. He and the CPA want the government to work with psychiatrists and the provinces to develop better ...
Update on Bipolar Disorder: Particle or Wave? - Psychiatric Times
5 Jan 2012 at 10:48am
Update on Bipolar Disorder: Particle or Wave?
Psychiatric Times
By James Phelps, MD | January 5, 2012 Dr Phelps is Director of the Mood Disorders Program at Samaritan Mental Health in Corvallis, OR. His website gathers no information on visitors and produces no income for him or others. He is the author of Why Am I ...
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Mom makes agonizing decision, turns her daughter in - Chicago Tribune
5 Jan 2012 at 7:56pm
Chicago Tribune
Mom makes agonizing decision, turns her daughter in
Chicago Tribune
With about 20 percent of its 9000 or so detainees diagnosed with mental illness, the detention center has become the state's largest psychiatric facility. "In Illinois we have a wandering legion of people with complicated diagnostic histories of mental ...
Brain Scans Show Pot's Effect on Mind - U.S. News & World Report
7 Jan 2012 at 12:02am
Brain Scans Show Pot's Effect on Mind
U.S. News & World Report
... Psychiatry, King's College London. "Some consider it to be essentially harmless but potentially useful as a treatment in a number of medical conditions, and others link it to potentially severe public health consequences in terms of mental health. ...
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Vero Beach symposium stresses good mental health crucial to overall wellbeing...
6 Jan 2012 at 8:12pm
Vero Beach symposium stresses good mental health crucial to overall wellbeing
TCPalm
"There should be no shame in having a mental illness. If you want someone to recover, you have to believe that they can." Other speakers included Dr. Mark Gold, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Florida College of Medicine; ...
Shire's Venvanse® (Lisdexamfetamine Dimesylate) Marketing Application Accept...
5 Jan 2012 at 8:09am
Shire's Venvanse® (Lisdexamfetamine Dimesylate) Marketing Application Accepted ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The scale, which contains 18 items, is based on the ADHD diagnostic criteria as defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision®, a publication of the American Psychiatric Association. ...
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